Artemis Update - September 2021

Artemis Update - September 2021

Before We Begin

We at Artemis Canada are thrilled to announce that we’re among Canada’s Fastest Growing Companies of 2021, as listed by The Globe & Mail’s Report on Business. How wild is that!!  We’ve enjoyed an incredible few years thanks to the efforts of our incredible team, the trust and loyalty of the great tech companies that we partner with - and to YOU our community of supporters and friends, all equally dedicated to making Canada’s tech ecosystem great.  So thank you - and YAY!

All The Moves

Kara Parkinson joins Alcumus as VP Marketing

Chris Long is now VP Product at Nudge

Former Shopify VP Talent, Janeen Speer,  joins Benevity

Eric Ritter joined Virtek Vision as ​​Senior Director, Services

Lynda Chau joins Bluedot as VP Marketing

Marko Savic is now, CMO at Powernoodle

Raghavendra Iyer Whetstone AI as Head of Data Platform

Sarah McMullin is now a Product Manager at Google

Heather McManus and Gayle Asselstine join Nobul as Head of People at Nobul and VP Finance at Nobul

Scott Marnoch is now VP Strategy and Business Development Life Sciences at ATS Automation

Tiziana Figliola is joining Vancouver-based Hootsuite as CFO

Brent Giles is now an SVP at LMN

​​JP Bhavani joins Daylight as CTO

Jesper Bendsten joins Lightspeed as Head of Talent

Jay Sweeney is now Sales leader at Demandtech

Lauren Epstein joins StandUp Ventures as Partner as they announce a new fund for Women-Led startups

Naomi Lipowski is the new VP Product at Rocket Doctor

Whitney Bell is New VP Marketing at Clutch

Kevin Callahan joins Medchart as VP of Product Design and Research

PocketHealth has added former Top Hat CMO Nick Stein as its first CMO.

Wrapbook has hired Daniela Cristea as VP of Sales, Kevin Prince as Director of Success, and Dan Pastuszak as Director of Growth Marketing.

Former member of parliament and innovation minister Navdeep Bains has joined CIBC as vice-chair of global investment banking.

What We Are Working On

VP Corporate Development - HealthTech - remote

Head of Engineering- Enterprise SaaS start-up - BC/remote

Head of Customer Success- HR Tech SaaS - remote

Head of Engineering- Environmental/Sustainability Reporting SaaS - Waterloo/remote

VP People- EdTech - remote

VP Security- Cloud/eCommerce - remote

Director of Scrum & Product Operations - eCommerce/Digital Currency - GTA

IT Lead- Financial Solutions/Tech - KW

Director of Operations- EdTech-Remote

Director Data Engineer  - eCommerce/Digital Currency

Director, Payments & Financial Services - Cloud/eCommerce - remote

Product Design Manager- FinTech Scale-Up - remote

Product Marketing Analyst - Network Tech - KW

Senior Product Marketing Manager- Enterprise SaaS - Customer Communication Management - GTA/remote

Lead Data Engineer- MarTech - KW/remote

Lead UX Designer- SaaS/ Edtech- remote

Humans of Tech

Meet Andrea Kerswill

Assistant Vice President of Innovation at Farm Mutual Re:

We chat about all things corporate innovation, what energizes her both mentally and physically (hint: barre, tea, and music), and her heroes.

Learn More Here.

All The News & Stuff You Should Know

The Globe and Mail Report on Business announces the list of Canada’s Top Growing Companies! (We’re on there, along with some really terrific tech companies! - Whooot whoot!) Read More

Mailchimp to be acquired by Intuit. Read More

Intellijoint Surgical Partners with Emmetros to Deliver an Enriched Orthopaedic Patient Engagement Solution. Read More

Magnet Forensics acquires evidence software company DME Forensics in $9 million deal. Read More

LinkedIn reveals list of Top 15 Canadian Companies. Read More.

LevelJump.io has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Salesforce. Read More

Stripe is opening its first Canadian office in Toronto. Read More

The Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) has announced its list of Top 20 Early and Top 10 Growth Canadian startups for 2021. Read More

Toronto-Waterloo has jumped four spots in Startup Genome’s annual global startup ecosystem report. Read More

Hudson’s Bay is teaming up with Rebelstork, to provide an opportunity for new parents to buy and resell baby products directly from The Bay’s website. Read More

Opendoor has acquired Toronto-based startup Skylight. Read More

BMO and Riskfuel collaborate on AI for financial transactions. Read More

Interac Corp. acquires exclusive rights to SecureKey digital ID services for Canada. Read More

Funding News

Koble-1M

Convictional- 6.7M

Medstack- 3.1M

MSP Corp- 35M

Gatik- 107M

Daylight (formerly FormHero)- 12.3M

LearnExperts- 1.25M

CarDoor- 3M

Foxquilt- 8M

Millions.Co- 10M

Dear Artemis

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October 4, 2021